Acknowledgments

Robert Barde, Susan Carter, and Richard Sutch acknowledge the helpful comments of Barry Chiswick, Barry Edmonston, Henry Gemery, Marvin McInnis, Marian Smith, Matt Sobek, Jeffrey G. Williamson, and Gavin Wright on earlier drafts of the essay. Christopher Meissner, Victoria Nayak, Luong Lam, and Simone Pert provided research assistance for the data tables. Additional assistance with the creation of tables for this chapter was provided by Marian Smith, historian of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; Josiah Heyman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso; and James Woodard, of the Budget Office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Financial assistance was provided by the National Science Foundation; the Institute of Business and Economic Research at the University of California, Berkeley; and the Center for Social and Economic Policy at the University of California, Riverside.